President Obama 'knows' how to handle Putin's 'continuation' (not 'invasion') - more sanctions (and costs for Europe) - but when it comes to beating the most "barbaric" terrorists known as ISIS, ISIL, or The Islamic State; he had this to offer... "I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet." Rest assured Americans - who have been told that ISIS could be crossing the borders every day and a constant threat, President Obama is 'working on it'. Perhaps most crucially, while we 'joke' that the administration has no strategy, it is noteworthy that Obama stated it was "not US policy to defeat ISIS, only reverse gains."

QUESTION: Do you need Congress's approval to go into Syria?

OBAMA: You know, I have consulted with Congress throughout this process. I am confident that as commander in chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently. As our strategy develops, we will continue to consult with Congress, and I do think that it'll be important for Congress to weigh in and we're -- that our consultations with Congress continue to develop so that the American people are part of the debate.

But I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet.

I think what I've seen in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we're at than we currently are. And I think that's not just my assessment, but the assessment of our military, as well. We need to make sure that we've got clear plans, that we're developing them. At that point, I will consult with Congress and make sure that their voices are heard.

But there's no point in me asking for action on the part of Congress before I know exactly what it is that is going to be required for us to get the job done.

Maybe instead of golfing around Martha's Vineyard, he could have been working on "strategy"?

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But perhaps more crucially...

...my priority at this point is to make sure that the gains that ISIL made in Iraq are rolled back and that Iraq has the opportunity to govern itself effectively and secure itself.

All headlines from Obama's presser will be "no strategy". But real significance, he says not US policy to defeat #ISIS, only reverse gains.

Actually this "No Strategy" Plan is brilliant. Give the enemy a sense of invincibility and security, lull them into complacency and then we...
Oh never mind. It's tee off time and the starter is getting impatient.

“The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.”

Glad you picked up on that HH. When I heard him answer the first question - if congress will be consulted before going into Syria -he said that "congress will be kept informed through this process". What he was actually saying "NO, congress will not make my war decisions for me." He's a Hitler.

Oh, it's all too clear what the strategy is. It's to do what they always do in the face of "terrorist dangers" (which, by the way, they have always created themselves):

Use the contrived threat as a way to fuck the American people over more and more and to further erode our freedom and liberty and strip away what's left of the Constitution from us.

See easy...

Let's face it, "folks"...the biggest terrorist organization in the world are the banksters and their political puppets who work night and day to fuck the rest of us over.

The biggest danger We The People have to face in these times is not ISIS, ISIL, IS, or Al Quaida. It's our very own Marxist, Fascist, treasonous, sociopathic U.S. government and their scumbag dogs, the NSA, CIA, DHS, , FEMA, TSA, IRS, EPA, etc. etc. etc.

Because let's not forget that these same assholes are the fuckers who list the American people, Constitutionalists, Conservatives, Libertarians, Patriots, Veterans, 2nd Amendment supporters, Christians, home schoolers, sound money advocates, preppers, and the white man of all ages, as the "domestic terrorists" and the biggest threat against this criminal mafia kleptocrocay.

This is all just a massive scam to be used against the American people.

We need to use radiation weapons. The USA has nasty directed energy"stuff" that can irradiate 100s of square miles with lethal doses of gamma rays. lets get busy. The verman are waiting. no residual radiation either.

TOTUS only wants to reverse gains made by ISIL in Iraq because ISIS was a CIA operative, created to destabilize Syria and the region. The US could wipe out ISIL tomorrow, but won't. Why? Kind of obvious to me.

We need to use radiation weapons. The USA has nasty directed energy"stuff" that can radiate 100s of square miles with lethal doses of gamma rays. lets get busy. The verman are waiting. no residual radiation either.

They sure are organized for a bunch of "terrorists". Seems to me IS is a country at this point. Obama actually used the word "coalition" in terms of fighting IS. Felt like Groundhog Day to me. Anyway, not a chance IS, Sunni dominated, is going to go away in Iraq and turn things back over to the Iranian Shiite minions in Baghdad. This is such a colossal clusterfuck.

They 'used' to be called 'ISIL', but I still don't know what or where 'LEVANT' is (sarc). I suppose that's some AshkeNAZI or KHAZAR term for a region in or around Syria or Egypt. That contraction didn't do too well, though (in striking fear in to the sheople). As they look at their 'smart-phones' with the attention spans of a house fly, they ask 'what the fuck is an is-ill?? OH, but there is an ancient goddess that is names 'ISIS', so the bright boys in Alexandria and their partners in Haifa morphed this abbreviation a little.

SHIT!

There are too many sheople who actually think that 'ISIS' is a hot bitch from 'olden times' (they were lost on the 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria' reference, due to the fact that the I.Q. of the average sheople has declined to the point of a 5-year-old).

According to the DIA/CIA chief, we are NOW to refer to it as 'IS' (Islamic State). They COULDN'T call it 'MS' (or, 'Muslim State'), due to the diseases they created that caused what the sheople are programmed to name 'M.S.' (Multiple Sclerosis').

I guess it depends on what the definition of 'IS' is (Thanks, Bill Clinton!).

LEVANT: The region between Turkey and Egypt that also includes the 'state' of 'Israel':

August 28, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The US has claimed it will begin reconnaissance flights over Syria - a tentative first step toward direct military intervention it has sought in attempts to overthrow the Syrian government since 2011. While the US is using the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) as a pretext to carry out these intrusions into Syrian territory, it was the US itself that created and to this day perpetuates ISIS and other extremist militant fronts amid a documented attempt to reorder the entire Middle East.

What is expected to follow is an incremental expansion of US military intervention in eastern Syria that will include further arming and funding of the very terrorist networks it claims it is violating Syria's borders to attack, culminating in eventual military operations carried out against the Syria government itself.

The US' justification for directly intervening in Syria however, only further undermines the very "international norms" it claims to champion, and opens the door for other nations it is menacing to use more direct means to confront its agenda of global military aggression, including along Russia's border with Ukraine.

In a discussion about whether the United States military would need Syrian government approval to act against ISIS in Syria, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest referenced the assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.

"The President has already demonstrated a willingness, where necessary, to protect the American people, has demonstrated a willingness to use military force to protect the American people, regardless of borders," Earnest said Monday

By exercising policy "regardless of borders," the US has just hung itself politically in its efforts to protect the newly installed regime in Kiev, Ukraine,and prevent Russia from intervening against what are literally battalions of Neo-Nazi militants operating along Russia's border with Ukraine. Citing the need to "protect the Russian people" resonates clearer in regards to legitimate concerns, considering Ukraine's proximity to Russian territory, than America's claims that a region on the other side of the planet, where one of its citizens voluntarily chose to put himself into harms way by covering an ongoing armed conflict, somehow now requires direct US military intervention.

You should investigate the dual citizenship of those who authored the PNAC documents. While you're at it, check out the members of the USG who claim 'dual citizenship'. A guy named 'Chuck Hegel' (same family name as the one who is famous for the 'Hegelian Dialectic') might be of particular interest in your intellectual pursuits.

"Actually, it's not complicated at all. "Bomb everyone until they send us money."

It is BTUs that the West needs. Mr Yellen can print all the money he wants to. BTUs are what drives the economic engine. If a country has BTUs they can and will get Western intervention. No BTUs, no false concern about any humanitarian casus belli. Cold, hard facts. Think Tibet would be in the news if they were sitting on a shit pile of BTUs?

The 'Valerie Jarrett' theorum states that the Mullato One will ALWAYS accept the female role when offered her 'leadership' (from behind).

The codification is evident in the decisions to allow INSURANCE COMPANY LOBBYISTS to ram in 'Obamacere', and the continuation of the 'BUSH BAILOUTS' of the 'TBTF' BANKS', and the appointment of a black communist as 'ATTORNEY GENERAL', and...

(Vision of slapping forehead repeatedly with own hand while enduring the pain and trying to wish that the pain would stop)

Actually President George Washington's first speech before was something along the lines of "I have now advised you...now I expect you to consent."

That didn't go over very well and he found himself to be America's Most Disappointed President as Congress "ran roughshod over Presidentital authority, prerogative" and a multitude of other forms and functions of "zee authority." Don't even get me started on John Marshall. "That be my Constitution bitch."

My view is that if you're looking for legal "counsel" in these affairs you're already in the wrong. They don't call it Hammer Time for nothing...

For our sake Obama better be playing dumb with this "No strategy" shit. A smart opponent, like Putin, always tries to weaken his enemy by drawing him into two theaters of war. Ukraine is valuable to Russia for it's warm water seaport but equally as valuable as a diversionary tactic: interesting how coincident these events are. The real spoils of war are the oil wells in the Middle East...and don't we all know it. We damn well better have a strategy here.

As Noam Chomsky points out, the definition of "national security" inside Washington is quite different for those outside the Beltway. For them, bringing instablity to other parts of the world leads to national security regardless of any blowback. On the contrary, those inside the Beltway welcome blowback because it justifies their jobs and continued budget expansion for "national security."

I got a fax from somebody over there saying my brother had died and if I were to wire him $50,000 US he'd sign over all the deeds to this property surrounding a supposed new capital city somewhere in the middle of monkeyshit paradise and flies that crawl out of the ground at night and eat people's flesh. I told him I'd send a postcard that said "Greetings from the Lovely Lucky 101 Super Service Truck Stop in Los Banos California" with a note that one Good Deed Deserves Another, Love Knuks and would sponsor his citizenship if he ever got here and could find me. Ain't heard nuffin' yet. And no, I ain't goin' to my brother's funeral.

Got this from a person I know, I am assuming their email has been taken over

Hello,

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Money Gram is the best option to send money to us. Let me know if you need my details(Full names and Present location) you can also reach me via email.I will forever be grateful if you can help me

All hopes on you.

Best Regards Cristina

LOL she is able to make contact with her bank and the USA embassy, why doesnt she then just finish out the vacation she payed for, I am sure they would send her the credit card by the time the vacation is over, also most vacations are package deals, most likely she had prepaid.

When he goes on vacation, his job is covered by his assistants; Doug Truthful and Amy Honest. Reading statements prepared by staffers Melissa Spin-Manager, Chris Propaganda and Steve Barefaced-Lies (of the Vermont Barefaced-Lies, famed for their corporate-relations empire).

Sir Winston... I believe that the MIC most certainly has plan, but obama is not at liberty to share with the public... he just screwed up and used the wrong lie in that response. the goal is for things to get bad enough that the american people don't object to the U.S. waging war against the Syrian government. There must be an event planned to kick this into high gear... it just hasn't happened yet... and it has to remain a secret until it happens (like Pearl harbor or 911).

that said, the world shadow government is obviously struggling to pull this off... my bet, they fail... for reasons that will become clear as this all unfolds.

Interesting to note that the 13th anniversary of 9/11 is a mere two weeks away, just as rather unpleasant events all over the damn world look like they're within a couple of weeks of kicking off with a vengeance.

Think we all smell a false flag coming on. Build up the never before heard of challenger ISIS then--BAM! They hit us and we gotta get patriotic and kick some ass. 9/11 took Bush from zero to hero. Right now obummer is a big zero...

Precisely. So what could he have said that would have made even one person happy? The situation is a no-win deal. If he had had a perfectly detailed plan that made all the sense in the world and wouldn't cost a cent, there would be hell to pay anyhow. If you don't like the guy... you just don't like the guy. Kinda like my ex-brother-in-law. Everybody hated the scumbag. He could elicit a resentment just for giving money away for free.

Can't be too harsh on them; after all, they are CIA contractors; t hey just got a little carried away with the gore porn. Part of our non-military invasion of Syria. Boy are the crazies ever running loose in Washington and Virginia.

the Zerobama needs strategy for ISIS: "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."- Machiavelli

Why wasn't Zerobama contained in Chicago? His administration is proof that containment does not work... what part of "defeating your fucking enemy" does neighborhood lawyer not understand? He certainly likes crushing conservatives.